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A Cost-Effectiveness Study for Strategic Airlift

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  • G. Arthur Mihram

    (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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This paper presents the motivation for the construction of a digital computer simulation of the American military's strategic airlift system, the author's analysis of that system preparatory to the simulation design, and the currently anticipated application of the model to studies of strategic mobility. Emphasis is placed on the estimation of the airlift productivity function for its subsequent utilization in appropriate strategic mobility models employed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis). Those variables suspected of being primary contributors to gains in marginal airlift productivity are delineated in a description of the modules constituting the model. Finally, a sketch of an hypothetical experimental design, permitting the systems analyst to specify sequentially model iterations so as to obtain valid statistical estimates of desired marginal productivities, serves as a conclusion to the paper.

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  • G. Arthur Mihram, 1970. "A Cost-Effectiveness Study for Strategic Airlift," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 4(1), pages 79-96, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:4:y:1970:i:1:p:79-96
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.4.1.79
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